benefit
Usage
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Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit.
Example Sentences
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Carbonaro also recommends Mitchum delay taking Social Security until her full retirement age of 67 or later to maximize that benefit.
“For AI to to see the step function change in productivity, there has to be a benefit to the end user.”
From MarketWatch
“I wanted to work until I could get my benefits.”
“It’s possible the benefits will become broader in the future,” Lakdawalla said.
From Los Angeles Times
Department officials are required to seek permission for traveling for department-related business, but the report found that a lack of proper record-keeping meant investigators were “unable to evaluate the key takeaways and potential benefits.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
